Oppenheimer Family Archive
Gemmingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg · 1790 – Present
16 generations · 98 family members · 84 letters · 151 photographs
Moses Oppenheimer
1874, Gemmingen — 1940, KZ Buchenwald
Cattle dealer from Gemmingen and patriarch of the family documented in this archive. His nine children scattered across three continents — some escaped, some did not.
Read his story →The Oppenheimer family lived in Gemmingen, a small town in Baden, for over two centuries. When the Nazis came to power, their world collapsed. Thirteen family members were murdered in camps and ghettos across Europe — Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Dachau, Gurs, Piaski, Kaunas, Riga. Others fled to Palestine, Switzerland, and the United States. This archive preserves their story through original documents, letters, and photographs held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the International Tracing Service.
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